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This study of the Italian mafia offers an analysis of the emergence of the mafiosi in 19th-century Sicily, relating this to changes in land-ownership and processes of state formation, and it traces the development of the mafia system through to the present day. It is aimed at students and academics in modern history, sociology and anthropology, as well as by the general reader interested in the origins and nature of the Italian mafia.
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